An Alternative to Execrable
Nathan, George
THE ALTERNATIVE: Published remarkably without regard to race, color, creed, or (most redundantly of all) national origin. Editor in Chief, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Publishers, The Saturday...
...Suffering a perpetual case of cerebral diaper rash the New Left is always whining about illusory injustices...
...Those creatures whose revolting nostrums define loftman's policies should be considered, both in theory and practice, the Albigensians of their pack...
...2 Our Archaic Draft by Russell Kirk...
...Party chairman redbreast will find Gourman's study in I.U.'s second-rate library, where we suggest he spend his second-rate time, reading second-rate books, thereby avoiding such first-rate stupidities...
...But then let us not get our hopes up...
...George Nathan OUR ARCHAIC DRAFT (Continued from Page 3) reforms would give us superiority over the "armed hordes" of Russia and China...
...4 Black Power and the New Left by Janis Starcs...
...The roving slums making up the New Left are no more democratic than Adolph Hitler, nor any more intellectual than Soupy Sales...
...Frankly, I prefer the present administration of retired basketball coaches whose bungling is at least unbiased, to a troop of totalitarian ideologues who are as foreign to me as Asiatic cholera...
...should be sent to The Alternative in care of the Activities Desk, Memorial Union, Bloomington, Indiana 47401...
...indeed, we could not possibly carry on so inefficient and prolonged operations in several parts of the world simultaneously, by present military methods and with present military personnel...
...Janis Stares 10...
...Aside from his excellency's grotesque physical appearance, consider the substance, style, and implications of his latest oratorical mewlings...
...As to loftman's assertion that he is protecting the intellectuals, they might find cozier security in the Kremlin...
...Will this bird-witted absurdity appeal to any literate existing beyond the confines of a pig sty...
...The New Left and the Black Power movement really are declaring war on Western civilization...
...The series of diplomatic and military blunders which led to half a million American troops being mired in a defensive action in Vietnam need not be repeated...
...It seems incredible that one should have to defend such elementary political principles as obedience to the law, but it seems that this is what we are reduced to...
...In the din of this perpetual politicalizing envisioned by loftman's "Grate Society", where will one be able to read an occasional book, attend a lecture, or write an essay without being assailed by pamphleteers or "piped in propaganda...
...Subscriptions cost $1.50, and all correspondence (manuscripts, subscriptions, threatening letters, federal grants, etc...
...These malevolent milk sops are nothing more than Madison Avenue ad men possessing a cultivated disdain for the niceties of the toilette...
...BLACK POWER AND THE NEW LEFT (Continued from Page 5) movement but refuses to pay the price for movement...
...AN ALTERNATIVE TO EXECRABLE We did not make guy loftman the butt of ridicule, God did, and as we are but the humble servants of the Lord we must remark on him and the pile of animated garbage festering about him...
...In eviscerating the hokum spewing from Radio Free Kirkwood, one comes across all ilk of shaded truths, baseless generalities, and arrant lies...
...6 Markings by Mark A. Watson and Stephen McKinley...
...He wishes creativity but is uncomfortable with the messiness of failed experiments and failed lives which creativity produces...
...Post College, a syndicated newspaper columnist, and a senior editor of National Review...
...Khrushchev George Washington Plunkitt Foreign Contributors, Alan Somers Kevin Berry Jerry Gerde The Alternative is published monthly from September through June...
...Did not some come to gain education...
...The Gourman Report: Confidential Ratings of American Colleges, published by The Continuing Education Institute, Inc., finds the Big Ten academically one of the finest conferences in the nation, and Indiana a top university in that conference...
...3 What They Say About the Draft by Them...
...Paradoxically, these haters of the bourgeois emulate the latest techniques of Madison Avenue's "Bright Boys" by conjuring needs for a naive pupildom and designing a chiliastic image to head their Local Liberation Front...
...8 Reviews by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...Thus, after a musty summit meeting behind Sunshine Cleaners, the TO BARE THE WITNESS AND THE TRUTH INDEX An Alternative to Execrable by George Nathan...
...6 Ethnic Power by Jefferson Davis...
...This swirl of nonsense and lies should convince students that boorishness and skulduggery are the politician's chief components and that when someone packages a politician attractively he becomes downright dangerous...
...4 Incites by George Nathan...
...In watching this divinely fabricated absurdity strut about campus with the sartorial grace of a rumpled and filthy Victorian bed, one can hardly help but muse on the tasteless humor often marking the human comedy...
...5 Poetry by Mary Qwaint...
...Rarely do they deal honestly or subtly with these injustices, and have you ever heard of their relieving an injustice they discovered...
...We are going to have to reform our society within the confines of the existing social order or suffer the consequences...
...If Durkott's formulation of "student freedom" means freedom from guy loftman and his marching hundred, Impact may serve a positive good...
...though one might question if heresy can exist where doctrine is rotted by gross lustings for power...
...Their oligarchic and totalitarian philosophy would render students not their social, cultural, and intellectual kin to a state of serfdom...
...Russell Kirk is research professor of politics at C.W...
...Allowing volunteers to select their own branch of service and their own regiment also would bring advantages...
...He also is the author of numerous books, among them The Conservative Mind and The American Cause...
...Publishers, The Saturday Evening Club Managing Editor, Jefferson Davis Editorial Staff, Debbie McAdams George Nathan Anthony Comstock Associates, Mark A. Watson Frank Octave Brunell Benet Hall Contributors, Greg Scott Janis Starcs Tom Charles Huston Mary Qwaint N.K...
...Recently (Continued on Page 10) 2 AN ALTERNATIVE (Continued from Page 2) prp chairman robin redbreast, heralded from Pigeon Hill to the by-pass for his seedy canards and sleazy appearance, solemnly and sorrowfully announced that in approving the fieldhouse the Board of Trustees had rejected an opportunity to raise Indiana from a secondrate institution...
...12 solons of Kirkwood make guy loftman their manikin for liberation, package "student power" in a nifty aerosol can, and saturate the market with insincere Doxologies to "participatory democracy" (surely a tautological asinity — can one have democracy without participation...
...Instead of broadening curriculum, streamlining administration, and developing new approaches to education in the cavernous multiversity, Berkeley educators have to waste time establishing diplomatic relations with Ho Chi Savio...
...In making every office from Union Board to Union Janitor elective these fascists would so inflate the power of student government it could treat those students either unable or unwilling to participate in politics as mere vassals...
...But from whence will the civilized minority find succor...
...Indiana achieved this rating in spite of having neither engineering nor agricultural departments and Gourman did not consider I.U.'s medical school, endorsed by the AMA as one of America's ten best...
...Two generations of these corrosive luminaries have bellowed and fussed about Berkeley, yet all they have achieved is an increasingly backward administration, so harassed it addresses all its time to fighting guerrilla warfare on campus...
...9 Letters to the Editor by Gosh...
...The involuntary vassals would hardly receive better treatment from an administration of students than from the present one, though probably the student administration would spray its dictums in haughtier contempt...
...Volunteer forces — raised (as once) by states and districts rather than by the present draft-scheme — would possess an esprit de corps and a general capability superior to that of the present conscript army...
...A combination of volunteer Regular Army and of National Guard reserves — together, of course, with our missile armament and other tremendous weapons — not only would be sufficient for our present military needs, but far more reliable than conscript masses...
...The politician will pre-empt the student, and the student will either quit his studies to assure his stake in student government or plug his ears...
...The Messiah of Moronia hypocritically pledges democratic student government, but who came to be governed...
...I can only point to Impact as the lesser of evils...
...in which case he will probably join the other vassals in the field...
...3 Views On Music by Frank Octave Brunell...
...he desires nonconformity and creativity but refuses to tolerate the divergences of viewpoint and the frequent eccentricity which are the price of nonconformity...
...blind his eyes, and attempt the cultivation of his mind...
Vol. 1 • October 1967 • No. 2
